Selected Individual Research
Knowledge-driven individual research is a central pillar of basic university research and is a basic prerequisite for future innovations. The quality and breadth of individual research at JLU forms the basis for interdisciplinary cooperation and successful collaborative research. A special role in individual research is played by outstanding funding measures from various third-party funding bodies, which cover all career stages. As the driving force behind innovations, individual research contributes significantly to the further development of society.
ERC
- Starting Grant
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DEEPFUNC: Using deep neural networks to understand functional specialization in the human visual cortex |
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Runtime |
01/2024 - 12/2028 |
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Coordinator |
Dr. Katharina Dobs, FB 06 |
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Runtime |
01/2023 - 12/2027 |
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Coordinator |
Prof. Dr. Daniel Kaiser, FB 07 |
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COREDIM: Uncovering the core dimensions of visual object representations |
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Runtime |
07/2022 - 06/2027 |
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Coordinator |
Prof. Dr. Martin Hebart, FB 11 |
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Runtime |
11/2022 - 10/2027 (am Polytechnikum Turin, Italien) |
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Coordinator |
Dr. Teresa Gatti, FB 08 |
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Title
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INDIVISUAL: Individual differences in human gaze behaviour and the visual system
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01/2020 - 12/2024 |
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Coordinator |
Dr. Benjamin De Haas, FB 06 |
- Consolidator Grant
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Title
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Restoring Roots: Pulmonary hypertension: “aberrant” mimicry of lung vascular morphogenesis? |
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Runtime |
10/2020 - 09/2025 |
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Coordinator |
Prof. Dr. Soni Pullamsetti, FB 11 |
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Title
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mRNP-PackArt: Nuclear mRNA Packaging and mRNP Architecture
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Runtime |
06/2018 - 05/2024 |
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Coordinator |
Prof. Dr. Katja Sträßer, FB 08 |
- Advanced Grant
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Title
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STUFF: Seeing Stuff: Perceiving Materials and their Properties |
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Runtime |
10/2023 - 09/2028 |
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Coordinator |
Prof. Dr. Roland Fleming, FB 06 |
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Title
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COLDOC: Investigating organic chemical reactions at low temperatures |
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Runtime |
09/2022 - 08/2027 |
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Coordinator |
Prof. Dr. Peter R. Schreiner, FB 08 |
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Runtime |
09/2020 - 08/2025 |
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Coordinator |
Prof. Dr. Karl Gegenfurtner, FB 06 |
DFG Individual Research
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award
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Award Winner (Year) |
Prof. Dr. Peter Schreiner (2024) |
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Description |
Prof. Dr. Peter Schreiner receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award 2024 for his lasting impact and influence on the overlapping fields of organic, physical and theoretical chemistry. "He was one of the first to introduce the concept of organocatalysis, which is the basis for sustainable chemistry", as described by the Leopoldina Academy. |
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Award Winner (Year) |
Prof. Dr. Marietter Auer (2022) |
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Title |
Outstanding work in the field of legal theory and legal history |
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Description |
Dr. Marietta Auer, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and Professor at Justus Liebig University Giessen, has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award 2022. |
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Award Winner (Year) |
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Lenger (2015) |
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Title |
Outstanding work on German, European and in parts North American urban history, culminating in the History of European Metropolises in the 19th and 20th Centuries, published in 2013 (Monograph „Metropolen der Moderne“) |
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Description |
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Lenger is, as the DFG's citation states, "one of the most versatile social historians of his generation, who has made a name for himself far beyond Germany. He receives the Leibniz Award for his work, which visibly stands out from the classical fields and approaches of German modern historiography and leads deep into the history of European-Western modernity. Lenger's broad oeuvre is characterized in equal measure by high empirical density, impressive literary knowledge, concise terminology and the ability to provide an original synopsis, whereby he repeatedly penetrates enormous amounts of material and advances to new questions." |
- Heisenberg Program
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Funded Person |
Dr. Matthias Elm |
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Title |
Maßgeschneiderter Ladungstransport und Ladungsspeicherung in nanostrukturierten Materialien durch Oberflächenmodifikationen |
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Starting |
2022 |
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Funding Line |
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Funded Person |
Prof. Dr. Sigurd Braun |
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Title |
Strukturelle Regulation und dynamische Kontrolle von Chromatin und der Genomorganisation |
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Starting |
2021 |
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Funding Line |
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Funded Person |
Prof. Dr. Stefan Witzel |
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Title |
Grobe Geometrie von einfachen Gruppen und Gebäuden |
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Starting |
2019 |
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Funding Line |
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Funded Person |
Prof. Dr. Jude M. Przyborski |
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Title |
Parasitologie und Biologie der Erreger tropoischer Infektionskrankheiten |
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Starting |
2017 |
- Emmy Noether Program
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Funding Line |
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Funded Person |
Dr. Urs Gellrich |
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Title |
In Silico Design und Synthese neuartiger, metallfreier Systeme für Bindungsaktivierung und Katalyse |
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Starting |
2019 |
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Funding Line |
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Funded Person |
Dr. Cornelia Kilchert |
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Title |
Mechanisms of substrate selevctivity of the nuclear RNA exosome complex |
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Starting |
2018 |
LOEWE Professorships
LOEWE top-level professorship Prof. Dr. Susanne Herold
The Giessen lung and infection researcher was awarded a LOEWE top-level professorship in 2022, enabling JLU to keep the renowned scientist, who has also become known to a wider audience as a corona expert since the beginning of the pandemic, in Giessen.
LOEWE start-up professorship Prof. Dr. Martin Hebarth
Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen has been awarded its first LOEWE-Start-Professur. It goes to Dr. Martin Hebart, who has been appointed to the professorship "Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and Quantitative Psychiatry" at JLU. The material and personnel resources for the professorship will be funded by the LOEWE research program of the state of Hesse to the tune of almost two million euros over a period of six years.
Federal-funded Research Group Leaders
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Funded Person |
Dr. Sebastian Losacker |
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Title |
TRABBI - Sozio-technische Transformationsprozesse für einen nachhaltigen Bausektor in der Bioökonomie: Regionale Leitmärkte und globale Innovationssysteme |
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Runtime |
March 2023 - February 2028 |
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Funded Person |
Dr. Daniel Amsel |
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Title |
AI-RON - KI-gestützte morphomolekulare Präzisions-Medizin in Neuroonkologie |
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Runtime |
October 2021 - March 2024 |
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Funded Person |
Dr. Felix H. Richter |
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Title |
FLiPS - Feststoffbatterien mit Lithiummetall und Polymeren Schutzschichten |
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Runtime |
March 2020 - February 2025 |
Humboldt Foundation
- Sofja Kovalevskaja Award
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Award Winner (Year) |
Dr. Agnieszka Golicz (since 2020) |
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Description |
Molecular geneticist and bioinformatician Dr. Agnieszka Golicz has been awarded one of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's highly endowed Sofja Kovalevskaja Awards in 2020 to conduct research with her own working group at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) for five years. With Dr. Agnieszka Golicz, an excellent young scientist is strengthening plant breeding at JLU, researching the structure of complex plant genomes. |
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Award Winner (Year) |
Dr. Katja Dörschner-Boyaci (since 2014) |
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Description |
Psychologist Dr. Katja Dörschner-Boyaci has been awarded the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2014 to conduct research with her own working group at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) for five years. In her project, Dr. Dörschner-Boyaci will investigate the neuronal basis of material perception - still a young focus of research into visual perception. |